“Italy: Colors & Emotions” Tri Mission Art Gallery Exhibition

“Italy: Colors
& Emotions”
is the opening exhibit for the recently dedicated Tri-Mission
Art Gallery
in the United States Embassy in Rome,
Italy.

Quilt artists from Italy and
the United States
answered the October 2011 call for submissions. Since that call, they have
created art quilts that reflect the emotions, history, and hues unique to Italy.
The Tri-Mission
Art Gallery
is pleased to present the art quilts by: Rosa Alba Bellucci, Maria Billings,
Maria Colonnelli, Laura Fabiani, Susan Fiorentino, Lithian Ricci, Patrizia Rossini,Elizabeth Sanders, and Simonetta
Zoppi. An additional invitational quilt by Jeanne Albertucci is also featured.
. Each art quilt in the exhibit measures approximately 39 by 39 inches / 100cm
X 100cm.

The exhibit contains two, first-time
quilt-makers and one with 34 years of experience in quilting.
Quilting, like people, keeps changing from the traditional to what it is today;
it is no longer a function of utility or frugality - staying warm and
salvaging material scraps, which anchored the beginnings of quilt-making but
the past 20 years has seen a shift to this art quilt form. Art quilts,
displayed on a wall, combine silk, cotton, linen, wool, paint, embellishments
and threads - all weave a story for individual expression with each art quilt
portraying the artist’s inspiration and talent.

This quilt exhibition is a collaboration
of many hands, all making a

figurative
quilt of fabric, community, and friendships: Our exhibit’s patron, Luana Rubin,
owner of eQuilter.com of Boulder,
Colorado with her presentation “Quilts Around the World” and our “Bella, Bella
Workshop” master instructor, Norah McMeeking, of California, internationally
known quilt designer, teacher and author of “Bella, Bella Quilts: Stunning
Designs from Italian Mosaics” have both provided invaluable professional
expertise to this quilt exhibit.